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...intensely vivid, sensation-enhancing experience-though there is no evidence, as is often claimed, that it is aphrodisiacal. For many users, it goes beyond the Freudian euphoria. Says a Manhattan ballerina: "It makes you shiver in tune with the raw, volcanic energy of New York. It bleeds your sense till you see the city as an epileptic rainbow, trembling at the speed of light." Test programs at U.C.L.A. have shown that lab monkeys will forgo both food and sex in favor of an injection of a cocaine solution...
...plant--you go a little bug-eyed. Come lunch, though, and we all used to go out in the truck where we could pick up the one station from Charlotte that played rock and roll. I'll tell you it saved our skins. It got us through till beer time." He winks. "And after that, well, after that we would get pretty wild...
...adding that the police grow unhappy if the same vendor appears at the same locale too regularly. A technical infraction of one of the city's many complex regulations can always be invoked, and a bust may follow: "If you're unlicensed, the motorcycle cop holds you till the truck comes. Then they take your stuff and hold it all day long at the precinct, until business hours are over. On top of going to court and paying the fines, you get charged $65 for gas and fees for the truck...
...other personal matters. Questions would be directed to her work, and to make sure nothing slipped out. Deane Lord, director of the Harvard News Office, would be present throughout. Nevertheless, the piece ended up as a psychological portrait of the first lady entitled. "Sissela Bok: What does she do Till Derek comes home...
Such fear may lead many graduates to look only for familiar challenges, thus narrowing their options, he said, exhorting his audience not to take that route, and adding. "If your efforts for social change are shunted aside till that road is too well traveled, you'll wait a long time...